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Standing amongst forty different suspects arrested over varied crimes starting from theft, rape, impersonation and cultism, on the Lagos State Police Command headquarters, Ikeja , Wednesday, was an beneath-aged boy whose look struck this reporter. Judging from his fragile body to his malnourished appears to be like, coupled with an expression of concern on his gentle skinned face, nothing would have handed him for any of the offences listed towards him.
Babajide Akiola
However throughout an interplay with Crime Guard, sixteen-12 months-outdated Babajide Akiola, as he later recognized him, confirmed that facial appears may very well be misleading, following his admittance to belonging to a dreaded cult group that has been terrorising Satellite tv for pc City, in Amuwo Odofin native authorities space of Lagos.
He additional opened a can of worms on actions of members of assorted cult teams within the space. Most startling was the revelation that youngsters as younger as ten years previous are initiated into the varied cult teams in Satellite tv for pc City. By the way in which, Sattelitte City was arrange by the Lagos State authorities in early 1960 to assist low revenue earners personal their very own homes, with a number of the areas allotted to grease staff and non-public consumers .
Alongside the road, unlawful buildings have been constructed within the space, which sadly have turned the world which was as soon as identified to be an property right into a slum, with the prevalent actions of cultists holding sway. On this interplay with Akiola, a Secondary College Certificates holder, he revealed that , main faculty pupils and secondary college college students , together with artisans within the space had been compelled into cultism. Try by anybody approached to place up resistance in keeping with him, meant the out proper relocation of the kid’s father or mother from the realm.
He additional disclosed that kids between 10 and thirteen years who had been initiated into main confraternity teams resembling Arrow Baga popularly often known as Arrow, had been despatched as spies on their rivals. The kids as gathered had been additionally despatched to survey locations like the large Navy barracks earlier than their ‘masters’ would strike.
How I used to be compelled into Eiye confraternity
Giving an occasion together with his case, he revealed that he was approached proper from the age of 10 to hitch the Eiye confraternity group. Based on him “ When the stress was an excessive amount of, I had no alternative than to present in . My father was an okada rider (motorcyclist). He was by no means at dwelling. There was nobody I may strategy when the stress to hitch Eiye was a lot on me . Even when I had approached my father, he wouldn’t have carried out something as a result of everyone seems to be afraid of the cult guys. He could be pressured to pack out of the realm and he didn’t have the monetary power to take action.
In one of many events, one among them, Samuel seized my cellphone and my shoe. I went house barefooted. As if that was not sufficient, I used to be crushed to a pulp by members of the cult group, for committing no offence. I ultimately joined Eiye confraternity in 2013, shortly after I completed my secondary college eduction.
Initiation
After my secondary college schooling , my father stated I ought to go and work as an apprentice below a vulcanizer. On the day of the initiation, I used to be taken to a lonely space round waterside,the place I used to be blindfolded. Thereafter, they beat me and poured alcohol in my eyes . My place within the group is known as ‘Tender’ . That is the least place. My job is to spy on rival group members, notably throughout struggle and provides their location to our members earlier than they’d strike. At first, nobody knew I used to be a cultist as a result of I used to be not transferring with the recognized members. However later, my boss bought to know and dismissed me”.
Graduated to theft
Alongside the road, I misplaced my father. By the best way , my mom was separated from my late dad. She deserted me and my two siblings with my father. When my father died, I travelled to the village in Ondo state to see my mom however she by no means welcomed me as a mom would welcome a baby she had not seen for lengthy. Fairly, she known as me names and despatched me away, saying it was unimaginable for me to stick with her as a result of she had remarried
Thereafter, I went to my grandmother who informed me to affix my two different siblings along with her to farm. However I refused due to the hardship there. She gave me N3000 to lease an house in Lagos . After I returned to Lagos, I went to stick with a buddy who can be member of similar cult.
Most theft instances in Satellite tv for pc City and its environs have been carried out by cultists. I solely participated within the morning raids ,the place these leaving for his or her respective enterprise locations are attacked and dispossessed of their money, telephones and different valuables. On the finish of every operation, I normally obtained between N1500 and N3000. I’ve by no means dealt with a gun as a result of I’m solely a ‘Tender’ .
Killings improve promotion
Akiola , additional disclosed that sequence of battle within the space had been brought on by rival cultists. He gave names of a few of two main unstable cult teams within the space as
Eiye and Arrow .
“We often had issues with the Arrow boys, over supremacy . So many individuals have died throughout such clashes in each camps.
Our hit males are refereed to as flyers and Adaba . To graduate from the place of ‘Tender’ to ‘Flyer’ or ‘Adaba’ , it requires human blood. Anybody that may kill three individuals at a go throughout battle with rival cult teams mechanically turns into a ‘flyer ‘ or an ‘Adaba’. However I don’t have the thoughts to kill. The day I used to be tempted to ask what else could be finished to graduate to the following degree was after I noticed a ten 12 months-previous boy who was already an ‘Adaba ‘ . He got here to the place I used to be standing with different members and cleared me off from the bottom just because I didn’t pay him homage . He ordered me to lie flat and used my again as a leg relaxation. That was to indicate me that he was senior to me in rank”.Requested what the identify of the ten 12 months-previous boy was, he mentioned he by no means dared to ask him.
Persevering with he stated “I used to be instructed that the choice solution to rise to the subsequent stage was to endure one other spherical of initiation which concerned cost of N15,000. Apart that , I used to be informed that a herbalist can be invited , who would combine cassava flakes in any other case generally known as garri with rice and would ask me to type out the rice like a hen. Thereafter, I’d be taken to Ibasa, a river financial institution the place the actual initiation which embody extreme beating could be accomplished. I used to be advised that a number of individuals didn’t go that stage as they died within the course of and their our bodies thrown contained in the river.
I made a decision to stay in my place as a ‘Tender ‘ as a result of I didn’t have N15,000 to pay and I used to be additionally not prepared for one more spherical of beating”. He revealed that areas vulnerable to cult actions included Tambolo village, Ibasa, throughout the river, Bale, Ijegun, Egba, waterside, Fireplace Service round barracks,amongst different locations.
Arrested
Akiola additional acknowledged that members of his confraternity group often attended events whether or not invited or not, including that on their means again, they might accost unsuspecting individuals who had been going to their respective locations of labor. Luck nevertheless ran towards them on December 29, 2015 , following the arrest of 4 suspected members, whereas working at Chemist bus-cease.
Akiola stated “ Bolaji was with weere((gun ) on that day. He used it to scare our victims. However we didn’t know that policemen have been round. I remorse becoming a member of a confraternity group. In reality, I really feel like dying as a result of I’m not ready to go to jail . If I’m let off the hook, I’ll return to my grand-mom within the village and be a part of my siblings in farming. Crime Guard gathered that some leaders of the cult teams had been killed by policemen throughout shoot-out whereas working.
The suspects, based on the Commissioner of Police , Mr Fatai Owoseni could be charged to courtroom.
Babajide Akiola
However throughout an interplay with Crime Guard, sixteen-12 months-outdated Babajide Akiola, as he later recognized him, confirmed that facial appears may very well be misleading, following his admittance to belonging to a dreaded cult group that has been terrorising Satellite tv for pc City, in Amuwo Odofin native authorities space of Lagos.
He additional opened a can of worms on actions of members of assorted cult teams within the space. Most startling was the revelation that youngsters as younger as ten years previous are initiated into the varied cult teams in Satellite tv for pc City. By the way in which, Sattelitte City was arrange by the Lagos State authorities in early 1960 to assist low revenue earners personal their very own homes, with a number of the areas allotted to grease staff and non-public consumers .
Alongside the road, unlawful buildings have been constructed within the space, which sadly have turned the world which was as soon as identified to be an property right into a slum, with the prevalent actions of cultists holding sway. On this interplay with Akiola, a Secondary College Certificates holder, he revealed that , main faculty pupils and secondary college college students , together with artisans within the space had been compelled into cultism. Try by anybody approached to place up resistance in keeping with him, meant the out proper relocation of the kid’s father or mother from the realm.
He additional disclosed that kids between 10 and thirteen years who had been initiated into main confraternity teams resembling Arrow Baga popularly often known as Arrow, had been despatched as spies on their rivals. The kids as gathered had been additionally despatched to survey locations like the large Navy barracks earlier than their ‘masters’ would strike.
How I used to be compelled into Eiye confraternity
Giving an occasion together with his case, he revealed that he was approached proper from the age of 10 to hitch the Eiye confraternity group. Based on him “ When the stress was an excessive amount of, I had no alternative than to present in . My father was an okada rider (motorcyclist). He was by no means at dwelling. There was nobody I may strategy when the stress to hitch Eiye was a lot on me . Even when I had approached my father, he wouldn’t have carried out something as a result of everyone seems to be afraid of the cult guys. He could be pressured to pack out of the realm and he didn’t have the monetary power to take action.
In one of many events, one among them, Samuel seized my cellphone and my shoe. I went house barefooted. As if that was not sufficient, I used to be crushed to a pulp by members of the cult group, for committing no offence. I ultimately joined Eiye confraternity in 2013, shortly after I completed my secondary college eduction.
Initiation
After my secondary college schooling , my father stated I ought to go and work as an apprentice below a vulcanizer. On the day of the initiation, I used to be taken to a lonely space round waterside,the place I used to be blindfolded. Thereafter, they beat me and poured alcohol in my eyes . My place within the group is known as ‘Tender’ . That is the least place. My job is to spy on rival group members, notably throughout struggle and provides their location to our members earlier than they’d strike. At first, nobody knew I used to be a cultist as a result of I used to be not transferring with the recognized members. However later, my boss bought to know and dismissed me”.
Graduated to theft
Alongside the road, I misplaced my father. By the best way , my mom was separated from my late dad. She deserted me and my two siblings with my father. When my father died, I travelled to the village in Ondo state to see my mom however she by no means welcomed me as a mom would welcome a baby she had not seen for lengthy. Fairly, she known as me names and despatched me away, saying it was unimaginable for me to stick with her as a result of she had remarried
Thereafter, I went to my grandmother who informed me to affix my two different siblings along with her to farm. However I refused due to the hardship there. She gave me N3000 to lease an house in Lagos . After I returned to Lagos, I went to stick with a buddy who can be member of similar cult.
Most theft instances in Satellite tv for pc City and its environs have been carried out by cultists. I solely participated within the morning raids ,the place these leaving for his or her respective enterprise locations are attacked and dispossessed of their money, telephones and different valuables. On the finish of every operation, I normally obtained between N1500 and N3000. I’ve by no means dealt with a gun as a result of I’m solely a ‘Tender’ .
Killings improve promotion
Akiola , additional disclosed that sequence of battle within the space had been brought on by rival cultists. He gave names of a few of two main unstable cult teams within the space as
Eiye and Arrow .
“We often had issues with the Arrow boys, over supremacy . So many individuals have died throughout such clashes in each camps.
Our hit males are refereed to as flyers and Adaba . To graduate from the place of ‘Tender’ to ‘Flyer’ or ‘Adaba’ , it requires human blood. Anybody that may kill three individuals at a go throughout battle with rival cult teams mechanically turns into a ‘flyer ‘ or an ‘Adaba’. However I don’t have the thoughts to kill. The day I used to be tempted to ask what else could be finished to graduate to the following degree was after I noticed a ten 12 months-previous boy who was already an ‘Adaba ‘ . He got here to the place I used to be standing with different members and cleared me off from the bottom just because I didn’t pay him homage . He ordered me to lie flat and used my again as a leg relaxation. That was to indicate me that he was senior to me in rank”.Requested what the identify of the ten 12 months-previous boy was, he mentioned he by no means dared to ask him.
Persevering with he stated “I used to be instructed that the choice solution to rise to the subsequent stage was to endure one other spherical of initiation which concerned cost of N15,000. Apart that , I used to be informed that a herbalist can be invited , who would combine cassava flakes in any other case generally known as garri with rice and would ask me to type out the rice like a hen. Thereafter, I’d be taken to Ibasa, a river financial institution the place the actual initiation which embody extreme beating could be accomplished. I used to be advised that a number of individuals didn’t go that stage as they died within the course of and their our bodies thrown contained in the river.
I made a decision to stay in my place as a ‘Tender ‘ as a result of I didn’t have N15,000 to pay and I used to be additionally not prepared for one more spherical of beating”. He revealed that areas vulnerable to cult actions included Tambolo village, Ibasa, throughout the river, Bale, Ijegun, Egba, waterside, Fireplace Service round barracks,amongst different locations.
Arrested
Akiola additional acknowledged that members of his confraternity group often attended events whether or not invited or not, including that on their means again, they might accost unsuspecting individuals who had been going to their respective locations of labor. Luck nevertheless ran towards them on December 29, 2015 , following the arrest of 4 suspected members, whereas working at Chemist bus-cease.
Akiola stated “ Bolaji was with weere((gun ) on that day. He used it to scare our victims. However we didn’t know that policemen have been round. I remorse becoming a member of a confraternity group. In reality, I really feel like dying as a result of I’m not ready to go to jail . If I’m let off the hook, I’ll return to my grand-mom within the village and be a part of my siblings in farming. Crime Guard gathered that some leaders of the cult teams had been killed by policemen throughout shoot-out whereas working.
The suspects, based on the Commissioner of Police , Mr Fatai Owoseni could be charged to courtroom.
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